Les jésuites des États-Unis (XVI^e-XXI^e siècles)

2024. The election of Donald Trump, supported by 56% of Catholics, marks the end of six decades of a strongly humanist American Catholicism. Within a community that is increasingly fractured, the Jesuits seem to have lost influence after 200 years of shaping American Catholicism. It was in the United States that the Jesuits found refuge in the 18th and 19th centuries. Against all odds, it was in this country that regarded them with suspicion that they discovered new forms of interaction with contemporary societies. In the United States, the Society of Jesus reinvented itself, energized with a renewed drive to revolutionize global Catholicism, especially during the Second Vatican Council. Today, the Jesuits face defections and revelations: sexual and financial scandals, controversial management of residential schools for Indigenous children, and more. But in the meantime, their network is engaged against the new Trump administration policies.
What future lies ahead for the Society of Jesus and Catholicism in the United States? This book attempts to answer that question.